“I was addicted to alcohol and the other girls were addicted to drugs. Paterson preyed on that addiction.”

Jay worked at AaBella Escorts for three years, starting when she was just 21.

She said: “Someone I thought was a friend at the time told Paterson – who I knew as Tricia – about me and that same night, I was in a taxi on the way to my first client. I did think at the beginning that I was like a high-class escort.

“But then Paterson phoned me and told me to take my clothes off in the taxi and go to the guy’s door in only my coat. I was so scared but I was desperate so I went through with it.

“On my second job, I got there and the guy was angry because he had asked for a chubby girl. He started shouting that he wasn’t paying the full amount and then he locked me in a freezing cold kitchen naked.

“I called the agency to explain what had happened but Paterson didn’t care.

“At the end of the job, I got £100 rather than the agreed £180. But, from that, she made me pay her £60 and the taxi was £15 so I was left with £25 for two hours.

“When I said to her about what had happened later, she just told me, ‘It’s part of the job, lump it or leave it’.

“Paterson wasn’t bothered at all about my safety and she never stuck up for any of the girls with clients. As long as they paid her, she didn’t care what they did to us.”

Jay added: “I was ferried all over Scotland, often to places in the middle of nowhere, and I was alone. The agency did no checks on customers. All they needed to send a girl out was a name and address. She put us in danger constantly.”

Bags of cash were found at Paterson's properties (Image: Daily Record)

Jay says that when she was based at the cramped two-bedroom brothel in Edinburgh, she would be expected to have six clients a night.

Eventually, after a violent incident with a man who refused to let her leave his home, Jay decided enough was enough.

She said: “When I told Paterson, she wasn’t happy at all. She started shouting and swearing at me and saying I owed her money.

“She tried to convince me to change my mind, saying I was her favourite and there was lots of money to be made.

“But I’d had enough and my mum had found out what I was doing so I was determined.

“That’s when Paterson became threatening and said the police and courts would become involved. She also refused to remove a picture she used of me on the agency website.”

But Paterson’s and Munro’s empire came crashing down when police raided their brothel in Haymarket.

They found condoms and sex toys as well as designer goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds bought by shopaholic Paterson. More than £200,000 in cash was also discovered.

The pair were found guilty of brothel-keeping, money laundering and living on the earnings of prostitution.

Paterson was also convicted of aiding and abetting prostitution.

Last month, at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Michael O’Grady jailed them both for five years each. Paterson could face a proceeds of crime hearing after she was convicted of laundering £700,000 from the empire.

Jay is still getting over what she went through during her time with the sleaze empire.

The tearful woman said: “Paterson is pure evil. It wasn’t just her running it but she was the one who did all the ordering – she was in charge.

“She started off nice but, by the end, I was scared of her because she would go mad at you for the slightest thing. If you were late with a client or the client was unhappy, she knew about it. She spoke to all of us like pieces of dirt.

“I think she completely took advantage of me because she knew I needed the money.

“I was addicted to alcohol and most of the other girls there were vulnerable because of their addictions too.”

Jay is now trying to rebuild her life after the years of mental abuse at the hands of Paterson.

She is attending counselling sessions and gets help from a support worker.

She said: “Paterson made my life hell and I don’t think I will ever be the same.

“I don’t think five years is long enough for what she put me and so many other girls through.”